Why do atheists...?

Question

Why do atheists like picking on Christians for believing what they do from the Bible without actually witnessing it, when 90% of them do the same with science textbooks and websites? Just because your beliefs are published two years ago instead of two millenia, does that make them more valid?
Is it because we can see the scientist on the news? How many of you actually go to a laboratory, collect samples, study them, observe them, and publish your results? What stops me from creating a website that says I have discovered the cure for cancer on Mars? What makes a textbook more reliable than the Bible? You take the textbook on faith like we take the Bible.

Answer 1

They rely on science because if done correctly they can reproduce a result in the lab and conclude it is a valid concept or principle. The problem is most people do not understand that for every fact they discover in science they uncover 100 more questions. Sometimes when they look into those questions they discover it varies the original concept. Sometimes it totally negates it. Science is changing but it is being held to people as fact without question. It gives a measure of security to believe science can give all the answers and is never wrong. They are also being treated to the ideology that if someone believes in religion they are not intelligent and that makes many people want to follow science so they don't look dumb.

Answer 2

Why do the Atheists not pick on other religions but Christianity? Maybe because Christians are the ones who goes around cursing them to hell?

Anyway, when you read from science textbook, you can do the experiment, or had you not done it before in your schooling days?

When a website that says someone has discovered the cure for cancer on Mars, he will be peer reviewed by his other counterparts.

Put it this way, take a bible and a science textbook out. Get a pastor to do what is done in the bible, carry a stone tablet and shout GOD!!!!!

Then, that a science textbook, go to a scientist, ask him to do the experiment and show it to you.

Thereafter see which experiment yield results.

Answer 3

The bible is invalid because there is no way to validate the claims it makes.

No textbook claims to represent the truth because "it just does". I do not take some 10th grade biology textbook on faith, or if I do, it is a more reasonable, valid form of faith.

If everything is accepted on faith, or willingness to believe, then there must be degrees of faith, and me accepting that tundras and viruses exist is a lot more reasonable than you accepting that an invisible, unimaginable, and incomprehensible force, called God, is behind every little thing that happens.

No holy book has ever been "more proven" than the next, and so it is sheer blind faith that causes a person to believe in one over the other.

All valid science textbooks are accepted to be true by a reasonable person. Most people do not accept the validity of every last holy book, so the two cannot be compared no more than bread can be compared to a tsunami.

Answer 4

Actually, I have read the entire bible twice.

I don't take either the bible or my science or math books on faith. Rather I check for evidence on everything I read.

I can perform the experiments listed in my textbooks. I can do experiments into the theories of gravity, electricity, and yes, even evolution.

I can repeat these experiments at any time and get similar results. The idea of replication is important to me, it means that the claims made in my science and math books were not flukes, but instead are very reliable claims made from observation.

I don't get the same results from the bible, nor have I ever seen anyone who can do what they bible says they can do.

Jesus told one of his followers that if he had just a little faith, he could tell the mountain to move into the sea, and it would obey him.

So far, no one has ever done this. I figure it is a lie, a mistake made in the translation of the bible, or that no Christian has enough faith to do so.

In any event, this lack of proof is compelling enough for me to conclude that there is no proof for either a Xtian god or having faith in the bible.

So if you want us skeptics to believe in your cause, you've got to move mountains (both literally and figuratively!) =)

Rob




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Answer 5

My laboratory is in my basement.. Yes I collect samples and test them.. This morning my 10 yr old and I collected water samples from the river, pond, tap and her fish tank.. We looked at them under the microscope and observed the microscopic life forms within each sample..

We have also collected blood samples (my blood), leaves, bugs, etc. and observed them under the microscope..

We have collected different catapillar's and watched them build cocoons and metimorphisis into moths and butter flies.. Monarch's are our favorite..

We plan on going to get tadpoles in the river next week and observing their growth into frogs..

So yes I have a laboratory... I do not publish my observtions as they are already well documented.. My daaughter and I conduct science experiments and observe the results for the fun and experience it gives us.

I do not see the bible as a relavent book because deities have come and gone through out history.. Humans create deities to explain that which they do not understand, when understanding is reached the deity becomes obsolete.. The deities of today will eventually go the way of Zeus, Posiedon, Vulcan and all other obsolete deities...

If you need a deity to feel safe, secure and happy, go for it.. I do not need that in order to understand and feel secure within the world, the universe and life..


I do not take textbooks on faith I research and learn... Taking anything including a textbook on faith is like blundering along blind, you never know where the cliff is..

Answer 6

I understand your reasoning. I will try to respond kindly.

We have determined from Descartes that the only certainty is that "I am." Not "you are," not "they are," but "I am."

Is it possible that everything I perceive for myself is an illusion? Yes. It is possible that everyone around me is an illusion himself and is also lying to me, including scientists? Yes.

But it is impractical to live this way.

Science produces definite results of which I make benefit. If you stop for a moment and think about how much science influences your life, you might be amazed. Everything: your clothes, your medication (if any), your car, your home, your workplace, your computer, etc. These are tangible results. I am willing to take some things on this "faith" (though it does make sense and I can see results) because not doing so is impractical. None of us, not even you, could live without making observations and conclusions, like cause and effect.

Furthermore, science is always changing as new information is collected. It is not free of errors, nor does it believe it is; it molds to the truth, it does not create it.

Edit: All this being said, I am open to the possibility of God, just not the God I see in many religions. It contradicts itself. Basically, I use logic to determine truths. If I can only reach the conclusion of uncertainty, that's fine. But if I am benefiting directly from science, I will gladly take this with the "faith" you are talking about...

Answer 7

no we dont take a textbook on faith. things in a science chemistry book (labs and what have you) can be recreated and you can draw results from what you observe. and sure go ahead and say you found a cure on mars but be prepared to have to justify and explain how it works. when a scientist gets his work published it is scrutinized for years by some of the greatest minds in the world to make sure it is correct as it can be. so yes it is more reliable than a 2000 year old book that says a man changed plain water into wine (changing its chemical properties with nothing but words) or creating man from nothingness or the birds and other animals from nothingness. that defies the first law you learn in a chem class, the law of conservation of mass and energy.

no i cannot personally replicate the results of some scientist's discovery but other people who have the resources can. you however, nor anybody in the world, can change water into wine with nothing but words. it cant be done. so i ask you, how is it the same when we learn from people who have had their works perfected over the past year or two to be scrutinized for another year then having that work published just as credible as a book that was originally written some 1500 years ago? a book that says a man walked on water, rose from the dead (reanimation of dead tissue cannot be replicated by anybody in the world either just so you know) and made a blind man see with only mud and spit on his eyes? how is that just as credible as a science text book? please email me with your answers, ide like to read them. oh yes and please include how i take a science text book on faith like you take the bible?

Answer 8

Why do atheists like picking on Christians ?..Because of questions like these in Yahoo!Answers.

But seriously, before you ask questions to atheists out there, you have to do your homework first. Like doubting Christians, atheist uses science...not because they use it to replace god...No sirree!!! Atheists uses science only as a tool (oh for crying out loud!) Gosh even Giesler and McDowell uses science to justify their belief in God. So it isn't only the atheists who uses science. Even Muslim and the most avid Christian apologists uses science.

Now again...you think that atheism was just published two years ago? Good grief where do you get all your facts? Atheism entered the picture when theism was born in human mind. When men invented the gods and proclaimed their existence, men also started to doubt his own invention.

What makes a textbook more reliable than the Bible?
Answer: Because until now, textbooks are use as a studying tool from elementary to college. Now have you seen a real educational institution that uses only a copy of the Bible to teach its pupils?

Answer 9

"Just because your beliefs are published two years ago instead of two millenia, does that make them more valid?"
uh, YES. Science changes based on new evidence as it is presented. Long ago we believed the earth was flat, until technology proved that wasn't so. Science progresses based on new findings. Religion just recycles the same old garbage and brainwashes people to believe it no matter how ludicrous it sounds

Answer 10

Science has the evidence to back it up. We can go do the experiments ourself - and we often do in class. Can't do that with god.

Yeah - because they were tested and verified.

We do? I don't see scientists on the news. I see them every day at work. Yeah, me - I'm a scientist. I go to the telescope, collect data, analyze, and publish it.

Because you wouldn't be able to prove it. But go ahead, there are plenty of nuts out there already.

Because you can test the stuff in the textbook. Not the stuff in the bible. Get it? Evidence.